William Douglas of Cluny (c.1428 - c. 1475) was a Scottish noble who was a guardian to King

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and in 1464, Warden of the Eastern and Middle

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William Douglas was the son of William, 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret Hay. Douglas was appointed guardian to King James III during his minority, and received from him before 1462, some of the spoil accruing from the forfeiture of the

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and his adherents. Two years later, in 1464, King James appointed him Warden of the Eastern and Middle

, in succession to his brother the 4th Earl of Angus on 12 January 1463, ¶ 773,774 775. and at the same time committed to him the keeping of the castles of

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and Tantallon, with their lordships. When the 5th earl, "Bell-the-Cat", came of age in 1470, William Douglas came before the King and ''ad eius genua prouolutus'' — resigned ward of Tantallon and the lordship of Douglas ''per fustem et baculum'' in the said earl's favour. The lands which he received upon the forfeiture of his kinsmen, comprising Sunderlandhall in Selkirkshire, Cranston in Midlothian, and

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and Leithenhope in Peeblesshire, were erected on 16 January 1464 into the barony of Sunderland in his favour. William Douglas of Cluny, sometimes styled lord of Sunderland and sometimes lord of Traquair, died, probably unmarried, before 1475, when his lands of Cluny appear in possession of the 5th Earl of Angus.

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* * ;Attribution * {{authority control 1428 births 1475 deaths House of Douglas and Angus Younger sons of earls